Through its more than 25-year history, Southside Institutions Neighborhoods Alliance (SINA) has evolved as a trusted partner and a highly-effective force for positive change in the neighborhoods that surround its member instiutions. Its success has also brought it national recognition as a model for community revitalization.

What would become SINA was originally brought together as a committee with representatives from Hartford Hospital, The Institute of Living and Trinity College in late 1976. Named SINA in 1977, the group worked on issues of mutual concern with a variety of activist community organizations. Principal among those organizations was Hartford Areas Rally Together (HART), which by the mid-1970's, had successfully organized a large network of neighborhood block clubs.

SINA today is a partnership between Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford Hospital and Trinity College.  SINA leverages the infusion of confidence contributed by the success of the Learning Corridor, and its own broad network of partnerships, to implement and expand the initiatives outlined in its original vision. It has been successful in reversing the negative trend in homeownership, stimulated renewal of the neighborhood's principal commercial corridor, opened up employment opportunities for neighborhood residents, acted as an economic development catalyst for neighborhood businesses and provided leadership for comprehensive neighborhood strategies. In the process it is fashioning a national model for neighborhood revitalization.

For more information, please visit: www.sinainc.org